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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
said summary account in a book to be provided for the purpose,
and keep the original in his office, and on the second day of the
next meeting of the general assembly be shall lay the same before
the house of delegates for the inspection of the members. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 191. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any suit shall
be brought
against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this act, the
suit shall be commenced within six months after the fact committed;
and the defendant in any suit may plead the general issue, and give
this act and the special matter in evidence, and that the same was
done in pursuance and by authority of this act; and if it shall appear
so to be done, or if any suit shall be brought after the limited
time, then the jury shall find for the defendant, and if the plaintiff
shall become nonsuit, or suffer a discontinuance, or if a verdict
shall pass, or upon demurrer judgment shall be given against him,
the defendant shall recover treble costs of suit as in other cases at
law. |
General issue may
be plead in suits
brought for acts
done in pursuance
of this law. |
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the passage of
this act, every person who shall or may remove to any county
within this state, from the county in which his or her property
hath or may have been assessed, or from any other place without
the state, and whose personal property hath not or may have
been assessed in the county to which he or she hath or may remove,
every such person shall, when required by the collector of
the county, or his deputy, in which his or her personal property
under his or her care or management doth or may lie, to give to
such collector, or his deputy, a full and particular account of his or
her personal property in the said county, and of all personal property
in his or her possession, or under his or her care and management,
liable to be assessed, and which before the time of such
request shall not have been assessed in the said county, and the
name of the person to whom the same belongs; and if any person
shall refuse, or after reasonable notice shall neglect to render such
account, he or she shall be subject to the same penalties imposed
on persons refusing or neglecting to deliver an account to any assessor
under this act. |
Persons removing
from any county
to give particular
account of his property. |
29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every collector,
or his deputy,
shall inform himself by all lawful ways and means of all personal
property as aforesaid in his county, (except the property by this
act excepted,) and shall immediately on such information proceed
to value such property agreeably to the directions of this act, and
shall return at the time and at the place to be appointed by the commissioners
of the tax of the county of which he is a collector, a
certificate in writing of the particulars of all the said personal property
in his county, and of his valuation of the same, in which
shall be expressed the number of slaves of each description agreeably
to this act, and the weight of plate; and shall return with his
certificate an alphabetical list of all such persons whose property
he shall value. |
Collectors shall
inform themselves
by all lawful
means of property,
&c. |
30. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
every collector,
or deputy collector, before he proceeds on the duties by this
act imposed, shall take the following oath, or affirmation, (as the
case may be,) to wit: " I, A. B. do swear, (or affirm,) that I will
well and truly execute the duties imposed on me by an act, entitled,
An act for the valuation of real and personal property within the |
Collectors bonds. |
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